I needed a global payments solution for my recent project, https://luckyresumemaker.com. I used Stripe in the past, but it lacks support for many countries, and the payment flow varies greatly depending on country. That’s when I noticed PayPal had released a checkout integration similar to Stripe. I ended up integrating PayPal checkout and am really happy:
I’m really happy with it as I’ve already had payments from countries which aren’t supported by Stripe.
paypal has a history of freezing people money I'll never trust them with my hard earned income
Do you have any details on this?
They freeze your account for example to ask you for identification documents.
I mean Stripe froze my account until I provided some documents. How is that bad or unusual in Paypal's case?
Stripe is a much more trustworthy company in my experience, and since these kind of integrations are time consuming and hard I wouldn't go near PayPal honestly! Happy to hear you had a different experience though.
PayPal literally froze my account 2 weeks ago because they wanted some "more" verification documents - but their email went to spam. Good thing I only had $20 in it!
I'am from Argentina and somehow this relieves me such as Stripe does not support this country, so for one project, I'm creating I'll have to use Paypal.
Nice to see another Argentine! You can create a LLC from here and have all the benefits of stripe.
Hi Alex, thanks for sharing this with us!
I wonder if the credit card payment is just as straightforward as Stripe? I'm just curious because I never integrated PayPal myself.
I think it is very important to offer PayPal as a payment option that's why I will integrate it in Independly in any case. Your post makes me wonder if I even need Stripe in addition or if PayPal makes it completely redundant.
Yes, card payment is straightforward. Simply click "Download PDF" on luckyresumemaker.com and you'll see the payment buttons. Click the credit/debit card option and you'll see it displays a credit card form.
I don't have the "Pay Later" option enabled, but if it is enabled PayPal also shows a button to "Pay Later" where the customer can pay without having money, on credit.
Your implementation looks pretty smooth! Great example, thanks :)
No Stripe or Paypal in Turkey. 😭
Use both?
It would be really nice to offer PayPal on my site.. last I checked (4 years ago..) looked impossible for me to figure out. Hopefully they have hired some non technical people to write their documentation.
I'd be curious about the difference in fees though. Paypal has to be higher right?
Cool, thanks for sharing!
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PayPal also offers subscription management. I just had a quick look at the docs but in practice, I have no experience with it. Have you already compared this to Stripe? Are there important features missing?